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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Jeremiah 16:9

And he declares that he laid this injunction upon him as a type that his countrymen, by such his forbearance, might understand that God in his providence was about to put an end to all their civil mirth in their days.

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See also Jeremiah 16:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17) CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _ 2. The coming days of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 7:3. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._. THE BRIDE. Compare Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 25:10

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Cp. Jeremiah 7:34....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Du. rejects all these _vv_. Co. omits 9 13, suspects the genuineness of 14, 15 both here and in Jeremiah 23:7 f., and rejects 16, as well as portions of 17 21. Gi. retains of the whole series only Jer...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. PROPHETIC CONDUCT Jeremiah 16:1-21 Jeremiah came through his personal crisis. He repented and God took him back. Now that the rebellious prophet was humble and contrite, God gives him further ins...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the br...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE VOICE OF MIRTH... — The words had been used once before (Jeremiah 7:34), and will meet us yet again (Jeremiah 25:10; Jeremiah 33:11), but they gain rather than lose in their solemnity by this verb...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּי֩ כֹ֨ה אָמַ֜ר יְהוָ֤ה צְבָאֹות֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism, commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to say, h...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    As the Lord prohibited the prophet from mourning in Babylon, so, from feasting; both were alike unsuitable, while the Comforter was far away. I pray the Reader to notice in both views the preciousness...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    This verse contains a reason for the preceding, — that every connection with that people would be accursed. Yet he states one thing more expressly, — that the time was come in which they were already...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely br...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... Who is able to do what he here threatens he will, and which he will do, notwithstanding his being the God of Israel; their hearts not being rig...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bri...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting_ God not only forbade his prophet to go into houses of mourning, but forbade him also to go into houses where people were wont to eat and drink on jo...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE INSTRUCTION OF JEHOVAH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, who here again makes announcement of His intention in a most solemn manner. BEHOLD, I WILL CAUSE TO CEASE OUT OF THIS PLACE IN YOUR EYES, that is,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 The prophet must conduct himself as one who expected to see his country ruined very shortly. In the prospect of sad times, he is to abstain from marriage, mourning for the dead, and pleasure. Tho...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 16:9 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 God H430 Israel H3478 cease H7673 (H8688) place...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH WAS NOT TO TAKE A WIFE OR HAVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS, ATTEND FUNERALS, OR PARTICIPATE IN FEASTING, AS A SIGN OF THE DEVASTATION THAT WAS COMING ON JUDAH WHICH WOULD TRANSFORM LIFE FOR ALL ITS IN...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE THIRD SIGN - NON-PARTICIPATION IN CELEBRATORY FEASTS (JEREMIAH 16:8). The third sign was to absent himself from all celebratory feasts, as an indication that the future was so black that there was...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming calamities. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the backslider in heart with his...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the capture...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21. Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16: The word of the LORD came also unto me...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 26:13; Hosea 2:11; Isaiah 24:7; Jeremiah 25:10; Jeremiah 7:34

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